Learn Japanese with JapanesePod101.com! In today’s lesson, our intrepid traveler, John, is looking for the rapidly vanishing kōshū denwa (pay phone). Let’s see if the sweet little old lady helps him find one! Our grammar point is ni aru, which is used to say where things are. Tune in to find out! After listening, stop by JapanesePod101.com and be sure to leave us a post!
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Mina-san, hope you had a great weekend! In Tokyo the cherry blossoms were blooming like crazy!
As for the lesson…
While they may be disappearing, you gotta admit the public phones in Japan are pretty high tech. Have you ever used one?
Hi, I am Miho from Melbourne here, and I thought it would be cool to introduce you to some extra vocab.
電話ボックス(でんわぼっくす) denwa bokkusu
Telephone booth/box
テレホンカード terehon ka-do
Telephone card
国際電話(こくさいでんわ) kokusai denwa
International phonecall
電話帳(でんわちょう) denwa chou
Telephone book
I hope this will help your learning!
Oyasumi nasai
After reading the pdf, I learnt that vampires are described using iru rather than aru.
And yes, it seems that Newbie 16 & 17 got skipped. Maybe we need some more lessons on maths. Actually I’m not too fussed, there’s more important things in life.
Can’t remember the last time I saw a public phone.
Alanさん、
Re: vampires. Well, they are animate even if they are undead.
mihoさん、どうも有り難う御座います! ![]()
feel free to share anytime!!
宜しくお願いいたします。
michaelさん、 hahahaha, not sure how that happened, but seems like the numbering in our production schedule got shuffled. so nothing was actually skipped, but someone mislabeled this one. next in cue is 19… so… hmmm.. どうしようかな~…
alanさん、it’s rare to have a chance to be funny with grammar, so we couldn’t resist including that little gem! ![]()
glad you noticed, lol!
danielさん、really? there are payphones all over my neighborhood, they have ISDN hook ups and all sorts of fancy features. never used one though, wouldn’t wanna cheat on my hitachi ワンセグ lover. lol.
Hmm, seems like you should look over the newbie lessons since there aren’t only this one that’s mislabeled.
Great lesson btw, and Miho-san, great vocab there. Otsukaresama deshita. Arigatou Gozaimasu.
thanks JockZon! (and we’ll look into it!)
daniel, hahahaha 御座る・御座います
Is it really true that there are hardly any public phones left in Japan? I visited Japan about 2 years ago, and I found (and used) plenty of public phones. Have they all been ripped out in the last two years?
NickTさん、
I’m not sure how different the situation is from two years ago (it’s all a blur to me
), but when a few years ago, there were rows of telephone booths next to every station. Now, there are just bicycles.
Hi Jacky-san,
I am able to play both the regular audio and bonus audio tracks fine… Could be a temporary network hiccup. If it persists for a while shoot me an email at support@japanesepod101.com.
Thanks,
- Eran
Ok, you’ve got to put up the text for the bonus audio. I’ve listened over and over and still can’t get everything.
Category: Newbie Lessons |
Grammar: ni aru | Function: describing where things are | Topic: pay phone | Politeness Level: Polite
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